Evernote Bought Four Companies Last Year And (Almost) Nobody Knew About It. It may seem strange to think of productivity app Evernote as a platform, but with 20 million users and 9,000 apps built on the client, the three and a half-year old startup is a veritable apps ecosystem. Beyond this developer ecosystem, the company released five of its own simple and unique Evernote-based apps in the past year: Hello, an app that helps you remember people, Food, an app that helps you remember important meals, Skitch, an app that lets you communicate visually, Peek, an app that utilizes the iPad cover for a novel take on tutoring, and Clearly, an app that makes content easier to read within Evernote.
To support all this app building, Evernote, which has a $95.5 million coffer from Sequoia Capital, Troika Dialog, DoCoMo Capital and Morgenthaler Ventures, has been quietly acquiring smaller companies from its talented developer pool. BlueStacks goes Metro with Windows 8 | CES 2012: Software and Apps. LAS VEGAS--BlueStacks isn't a household name, but it's about to become arguably one of the most useful pieces of preinstalled software on Windows 8 computers.
At the 2012 Consumer Electronic Show here today, BlueStacks revealed a functional demo that runs Android apps of all kinds on Windows 8. This follows last year's debut of the software and release as a rough alpha for Windows 7 , but it comes with a piece of unexpected news. The software maker has been in talks with hardware manufacturers to ship the program preinstalled on Windows 8. A beta of the Windows 7 version was also cagily given a release date of sometime before the second quarter of 2012. BlueStacks CEO Rosen Sharma, spoke confidently about the impact that his software will have. "The Metro UI is beautiful, but the number one thing Windows 8 is missing is apps," he said. "This changes all that. " To be uncharitable about it, your Windows 8 system could very well include software that runs Android apps. Bradley Horowitz - Google+ - Google+: new safety enhancements, now available for teens … Google+: new safety enhancements, now available for teens Teens and young adults are the most active Internet users on the planet [1].
And surprise, surprise: they're also human beings who enjoy spending time with friends and family. Put these two things together and it's clear that teens will increasingly connect online. Unfortunately, online sharing is still second-rate for this age group. In life, for instance, teens can share the right things with just the right people (like classmates, parents or close ties). Over time, the nuance and richness of selective sharing even promotes authenticity and accountability. With Google+, we want to help teens build meaningful connections online. Safety starts with your circlesThe difference between friends, acquaintances and strangers is a crucial one—especially for teens. Sharing contentWith Google+ you can share privately with your circles, or publicly with the world. ----------------- #googleplusupdate. Is Google+ bigger than Twitter?
Galaxy Nexus and Google+ Hangouts: Social MC's. Facebook buys Gowalla :O. Nobody Reads Twitter Bios And Wrestling Fans Are The Dumbest People On The Net. I’ve been registered on Twitter under the username @Sheamus since March 8, 2008. Well over three years. In that time I’ve built up a pretty reasonable following and certain amount of recognition in the Twitter and social media space. But that’s on Twitter. In the ‘real world’ the most famous Sheamus is arguably Irish professional wrestler Sheamus O’Shaunessy. And this has given me all sorts of problems. Here’s the thing. Here’s my Twitter bio in all its glory: Note the part in red. But no. You want some examples? Damn you, Supercuts.
British weather. I’m flattered. Yes! Thank you! No he won’t. Charming. I already have seven tattoos. And the one that takes the cake of all cakes: And then there’s this: Google Chrome for Android Beta Now Available [Video, Android 4.0+ Only] The moment you’ve all been waiting for is finally here. We’ve been longing for a Google Chrome browser on Android for quite some time, and while the default browser has been outstanding we are excited for all of the potential benefits of having a fully-fledged Chrome browser on our phones. Bookmark sync is back from the stock Android 4.0 browser but we’ve now got the ability to sync history, improved search suggestions and the ability to bring all of your tabs over to mobile in case you need to leave your desktop computer and take your browsing sessions with you.
You can even open an unlimited amount of tabs, something that users are usually limited on. It’s based directly on the Chromium project that Chrome is built from so you’re getting the same rendering engine (always have, really) and the same base code for your phone and tablets that you have on your desktop. Unfortunately this one’s only for Android 4.0 or higher devices but if you fit the bill, check out the beta here. iMessage alternative for android. Siri. IBM On-Screen Keyboard Matches Your Hand Anatomy. An IBM patent points to an on-screen keyboard that matches the user’s anatomy, changing to reflect each users “unique typing motion.” The keyboard requires calibration in the form of various exercises. The system then senses various variables like “finger skin touch area, finger size data and finger position.” It then creates a unique keyboard based on a “set of averages.” For example, some of the buttons will be bigger or smaller than others and potentially in different places.
This allows for more efficient typing on touchscreens and surface systems. Does this mean IBM is working on a tablet. Via NewScientist.
Mobile networks. How an Online Game Plans to Reward Kids for Playing Outside Mashable | The Social Media Guide. Charged with teaching a dozen 7-year-old little league players the finer points of baseball, David Jacobs and Steven Lerner decided to start with a simple warm-up. They explained that they would yell out the name of a base, and the kids would run to it. When they started with "second base," however, children scattered to four different bases. Several little league practices and bus-stop discussions later, Jacobs and Lerner decided to fill the need they had discovered for a compelling way to teach kids about sports. What they came up with, FunGoPlay, combines an online sports game world with physical sporting equipment that registers physical play and rewards it with special access codes. The "online sports theme park" will launch this Spring.
The model hits a sweet spot on several levels. A World of Sports That Speaks to Kids “It’s a huge business to teach coaches how to coach, but there was nothing that really spoke to kids,” Lerner says. A Ball With a Brain But Will It Win With Kids? One Per Cent: What chatbots talk about when humans aren't around. Melissae Fellet, reporter Computers can converse well enough to fool people into falling in love with an imagined human. But in listening to the random conversation of one chatbot talking to itself, a robot-on-robot love connection seems rather unlikely. Igor Labutov, Jason Yosinski and Hod Lipson at the Creative Machines Lab at Cornell University connected a chatbot called Cleverbot to itself - just for an "afternoon hack", Yosinki says. Cleverbot is a web server that has been running since 1997.
A human enters text and the bot searches its memory of over 20 million past conversations for the most appropriate response. In the video, two Cleverbots exchange text and a program converts the text to audible speech. Another program syncs an avatar's movements with the speech. During their conversation, the two bots quickly discover that the other is a robot, although one declares itself a unicorn.
Artificially intelligent chat programs have yet to completely con humans. Cloud computing can cut carbon emissions by half, report finds | Environment. Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, shows an image of the new storage centre for iCloud at the Worldwide Developers Conference. Photograph: Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Blue-chip companies could reduce their carbon emissions by 50% if they migrate their data storage operations to the cloud, a new study says. The study conducted by the Carbon Disclosure Project in London focussed on large IT companies in France and the UK and found that they could achieve large cost savings and carbon reductions by 2020 if they moved their IT systems to shared data networks.
Big IT companies are also the developers of cloud services and they are keen to see expansion of the services. The study follows a recent forecast that use of cloud services could triple in the next two years. The Open Data Center Alliance, an umbrella group of more than 300 companies including global banks, released a statement last week saying they had planned to adopt cloud services much faster than thought. Samsung launches ChatON messaging app for Android. Thanks to + salman khan Bringing Online Education To Mongolia, In Wireless. Posted on LiveShare | Mobile World Congress 2011.
Technology in Teaching and learning. Why You Should Use Gmail's Mobile Web App Over iPhone Mail. Gmail users, there's one less reason to use your iPhone mail app and one more reason to stick with the native Gmail mobile Web app. Google announced this morning that it began offering priority inbox for its mobile Web app to help users sort through the flood of email while on the go. While Apple updated its mail app with iOS 4.0, the mobile Web version of Gmail has a couple of features - now Priority Inbox included among them - that should make you consider ditching the Mail app for good.
"If you've ever cursed a phone's tiny screen as utterly inadequate for sifting through an overflowing inbox you'll be pleased to hear that the Gmail mobile web app now supports Priority Inbox," wrote Nathan Bullock, a software engineer at Google, on the company's blog. "Priority Inbox helps combat information overload by automatically identifying your important messages so you can focus on those first. As of today, your priority inbox is now available on iPhone via the web app.
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